Britain's Digital Economy Bill will cost ISPs £500M, knock 40K poor households offline
For all the talk of stopping "piracy," which is such a loaded word anyway, this post on Boing Boing shows why this kind of legislation is insanity. Sure, if countries really want to do this they can make their old-media lobbyists happy, but the consequences are far-reaching and very damaging, and likely in ways that current research can't predict.
